Conversation with a city

In the following writings I am documenting my exploration of Montreal, revisiting its ghosts and poetry. Here and there I have left reactions to the city spaces, evidence of my touch, my contribution to the city's rumbling, evergoing conversation and strange interactions.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Things are getting better....

Ahem, allow me to present my most recent illustration commissioned by Metta Spencer of Peace Magazine. The illustration is in response to a review by Mel Watkins of Steven Pinker's 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined and Joshua S. Goldstein's 2011 book, Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide.
In my illustration sits a shapeshifting shaman in owl form sitting in a Manitoba sky on a mountain of neutralised guns, grenades, bombs and other abhorrent items that are slowly disappearing underneath an array of blossoming wildflowers. The piece is officially titled, For Ella, Things are getting better. Ella is my little niece who loves to delve into making things.

About Me

Anna Jane McIntyre's love of the nighttime spectacle, cheap glamour, the complexity of being human, lights and action has resulted in an obsession with the circus arts. Her work explores animism, social behaviour, movement, the imagined, the agreed upon, notions of balance and the powerful allure of the asymmetrical.